A website said having Patty Jenkins direct Wonder Woman was a risk. Twitter fired back.

‘Remember when Sony gambled $230 million on a Spider-Man reboot on an indie director whose previous film cost $7.5 million?’

At first glance, this tweet from The Hollywood Reporter to an article about “Wonder Woman” director Patty Jenkins seems innocent enough.

“Warner Bros. is gambling $150M with a filmmaker whose only prior big-screen credit was an $8M indie,” the tweet reads. Taken at face value, sure, that seems to make sense. Putting someone at the helm of a $150-million project is naturally a risk-filled endeavor, no matter who you’re talking about. And, yeah, when that’s nearly 20 times as much money as that person’s ever had to work with, it’s a fair question to ask.

What doesn’t help, however, are messages that suggest women aren’t capable of handling large projects like this, as though they didn’t earn it. Again, on Twitter, some users replied to THR to point this out.

Why is ‘risk’ only associated with female filmmakers? This is toxic & does nothing to further an inclusive industry. Check yourselves @THR

3. Similarly experienced men direct big-budget films all the time, but you don’t see nearly as many stories about them being a “gamble” or “risk.” Why is that?

Fandango movie critic Erik Davis unleashed an absolutely fire string of tweets highlighting other times studios have given big budget films to directors with pretty meager portfolios. There’s just one big difference here, he pointed out: Jenkins is a woman.

Remember when Disney gambled $170 million on CAP 2 on 2 brothers who previously directed episodes of COMMUNITY?? https://t.co/XkQc5JBYPR